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9 months agoNothing followed by the sound of a lot of cars leaving the Facility very fast.
Nothing followed by the sound of a lot of cars leaving the Facility very fast.
TDD
const max12 = (x, y) => {
if (x === 1 && y === 2) {
return 2;
} else if (x === 7 && y === 4) {
return 7;
} else {
return x;
}
};
It’s even cooler than lightbulbs, though (assuming we’re talking about incandescents) - you send electricity back and forth into a wire that’s just the right length, and (RF) light leaks out without it getting hot!
Got my first programming experience on the BBC Micro at school! (We never had anything as fancy as a Master though). Those heavy cube monitors and the “beep-boop” startup sound are iconic.
Um, actually… A signed 32-bit counter would loop back to December 1901, so the calendar is presumably 31-bit unsigned. (Sorry)
Most people would use “word”, “half-word”, “quarter-word” etc, but the Anglophiles insist on “tuppit”, “ternary piece”, “span” and “chunk” (that’s 5 bits, or 12 old bits).